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Eileen was awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Congratulations to Catherine Newman for being named a Gates-Cambridge Scholar. Cat, currently working in the Brennan Lab, is among 35 U.S. recipients selected for the prestigious scholarship. Read more

Vice President, Joe Biden, meets with Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Modrich.

In a new study, researchers from The Duke University Medical Center and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) reveal the three-dimensional structure of a crucial ion channel

Dr. Bruce Donald was elected for his seminal contributions to Information, Computing & Communication science, and their advancement towards the development of in silico drug design methodologies. 

Paul Modrich, Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK, and Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, are the recipients of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

The Schumacher Lab describes the machinery and assembly mechanism of the archaeal Sulfolobus pNOB8 segregation system.

Benjamin Fenton awarded a 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Dr. Vann Bennett and team have shown that two different mutations in a gene called ankyrin-B cause cells to suck up glucose faster than normal, fattening them up and eventually triggering the type of diabetes linked to obesity.

Research collaboration explores the efficacy of beating back multidrug-resistant bacteria by using chemical compounds known as LpxC inhibitors.